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The Second Council of Lyon opened on May 7, 1274, convened by Pope Gregory X to address the fractured state of the Catholic Church, launch a new crusade, and attempt reunion with the Eastern Church. Thomas Aquinas died on his way to attend. The reunion with the East lasted approximately four years. The council's impact on church governance lasted considerably longer.

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane opened its doors for the first time on May 7, 1663, making it the oldest theatre in continuous operation in the English-speaking world. It has burned down twice, been rebuilt four times, and hosted performances ranging from Shakespeare to Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is still open. London audiences, it turns out, are loyal.

Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony received its world premiere in Vienna on May 7, 1824. Beethoven stood on stage to help conduct, though the actual conducting was handled by someone else — he was by this point entirely deaf. When the audience erupted in applause, he could not hear it. A soloist reportedly turned him around so he could see what he was missing. He wept.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk, Russia — not Hamburg, a correction worth noting since multiple sources get it wrong. He would compose Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and the 1812 Overture, and become the most performed classical composer in history. He opened Carnegie Hall on May 5, 1891 — which means he appears in two issues of Rewind this week, which we find pleasing.

The RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915, sinking in eighteen minutes and killing 1,198 people — including 128 Americans. Germany had warned that the ship was a legitimate military target. Most passengers didn't believe it. The sinking outraged American public opinion and began a slow, two-year shift toward U.S. entry into World War I.

Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims in the early hours of May 7, 1945, effectively ending World War II in Europe. The formal surrender was ratified the following day in Berlin. V-E Day — Victory in Europe — would be celebrated on May 8th, but the war ended here, in a schoolhouse, at 2:41 in the morning.

French forces surrendered to the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu after a fifty-seven day siege, effectively ending French colonial rule in Indochina. It was one of the most decisive defeats of a Western power by an Asian military force in modern history. The United States, watching closely, drew the wrong conclusions and would spend the next two decades learning the same lesson a different way.

Leonid Brezhnev replaced Kliment Voroshilov as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet — technically the head of state of the USSR — on May 7, 1960. It was, by Soviet standards, an unremarkable transfer of power. Brezhnev would eventually consolidate real authority and lead the Soviet Union for eighteen years, presiding over both its peak influence and its accelerating decline.

President Gerald Ford officially declared the end of American involvement in Vietnam on May 7, 1975, telling an audience at Tulane University that the war was "finished as far as America is concerned." It had lasted, depending on how you count, somewhere between ten and twenty years, cost 58,000 American lives and millions of Vietnamese, and ended with helicopter evacuations from a rooftop in Saigon eleven days earlier.

The 27th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on May 7, 1992, prohibiting Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise. It had originally been proposed by James Madison in 1789 — making it the longest gap between proposal and ratification in American constitutional history. It took 202 years and 7 months. The Republic survived the wait.

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